Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Superiority of the Qur’an Over all Other Scriptures
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unis right which is verse 5758 Yeah Yohannes Okada at home our
ego to become worship Lima few sudo worship Lima is sudo arriva
who then who are metal meaning all we thought that he will be Rama de
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people are teaching from your Lord has come to you.
A teaching or advice has come to you from your Lord, a healing for
what is in your hearts and guidance and mercy for the
believers say in Allah's mercy and in Allah's virtue and mercy. Let
them rejoice. These are better than all they accumulate.
May Allah give us the reality of that
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a little more theory. Allah subhanaw taala says here that
truly this Quran has been sent down by the Lord of the Worlds.
the trustworthy spirit brought it down to your heart, he's talking
to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, so that you would be one of the
winners. This is from sort of the show up first 192 to 194.
What we want to look at today is one of the introduction and first
chapter of Chef Muhammad Khalil Hassan is my Al Quran you carry
with the Noble Quran. So the author starts off by saying that
all praise is due to Allah, the One who revealed the Quran and
takes care of the righteous Peace and blessings upon our Master
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam, the best of prophets, the elect of
the messengers, and to whom was revealed the verse which I just
recited what is which is waiting the hula 10 Zero Bill Alameen
necessarily be Hebrew, el Amin, Allah Colby Caleta akuna minal
Mondrian, Melissa and in Arabi, mobian Truly it is a revelation
from the Lord of the worlds that trustworthy spirit brought it down
upon your heart so that you could bring warning in a clear Arabic
tongue.
Right and upon his family and companions, that adherence and
guardians of the Quran and upon all those who take their path in
defense of the Quran and protection of his purity. Right
now, he the author, he actually starts off with this little
complaint or reflection or lament, you can call it whatever you want.
He says that when reciting the Noble Quran, I have observed that
some contemporary researchers have lost sight of its true purpose.
Now, you know that Egypt has been at the forefront at least in the
last several decades, probably a century, right. I mean, I can only
speak about from the 1980s from when I have observed that the
Egyptian Coura have been the top countries of the world, right. So
it's Egypt that has mashallah exported around the world. And of
course, there's now other places that Syria there's the Indian
subcontinent. I mean, you'd be surprised. You know, there's other
places as well where mashallah good Kara is coming from. However,
Egypt has been traditionally the place I mean, before 100 years
ago, I don't know. Right? That's too long for me to have looked
into that. But however, since the last 100 years, right, the
19 1900s, definitely Egypt and they've had a lot of Kara. So now
among them, Sheikh Mahmoud has a little history. He's complaining
because whenever you have so much of anything in a place, then
clearly there's going to be some people who may exaggerate. There's
going to be some people who may take things beyond their
boundaries is going to people who shortcoming so this is what he
says. He says that, when reciting noble Quran, I've observed that
some contemporary recitals have lost sight of its true purpose
deviating from its correct method, and they abandon its proper
practice. They recite its verses, according to their whims without
regard to its even proper order, thereby severing that which Allah
has connected, meaning when Allah has brought verses together, these
people will, you know, separate them and read a bit from here read
a bit from there, that's what he's saying, in a single gathering.
Now, this is a bit more technical. He says in one gathering in one
session, they repeat a verse according to its variant Kira,
recitations, Kira and recitations and rewire recensions write an
innovation that has no precedence among the righteous predecessors
of the ummah. He's got a whole chapter on discussing whether it's
permissible or not, but what he means is that you know, you have
the seven to 10, clearer and more. So he's saying that when you're
reading in one session, you should actually complete a whole reading
completely
Reading in just one karate, you should not be mixing them up in
the one session where you read one verse in its multiple forms, then
you read the next verses multiple forms. Later on, he discusses it,
he said that you you should only the scholars have only allowed
this when you're reciting to a teacher just to facilitate quicker
reading so that you can complete the whole Quran in its multiple
recitations. But in order to wow people, you can't do that, because
it says that the focus is wrong there, you're gonna just have
people just admiring the various stations without really focusing
on the meaning. I think that's kind of the crux of what he's
saying. He says, I've written this book, my Al Quran, Allah Kareem as
a sincere service for the book of Allah Most tied to clarify the
correct method of his recitation, and to defend the most sanctified
thing that Muslims take honor in, which is the Quran May Allah make
that like that for us, and to advise the vast majority of
reciters and listeners. And believe me, I mean, you know, I
when I read this book, I was extremely inspired. And that's why
we've taken it for publication and that's why we're public. We've
published it right, and inshallah you will be inspired as well. He
said, I've included some other topics in this book to make its
utility more holistic and greater in scope, hoping to serve the book
of Allah and seeking the beautiful reward and abundant gifts that
Allah has in store for the people of the Quran. May Allah subhanaw
taala accept this book from him.
We move into the first chapter.
The first chapter are kind of, you know, like summarize it for you.
What he speaks about is very important. And the first chapter
is actually about the superiority of the Quran over other revealed
scriptures. Now, I guess we already know that but he's going
to discuss a few things regarding this. He says that the Noble Quran
is the Wise Book of Allah, His manifested light, his straight
path, his greatest sign, his greatest guidance, the miracle of
all the miracle of all time, the book of eternity and the
Constitution of the universe. He calls it the constitution of the
universe, meaning everything relevant about the universe is
contained in the book for us as guidance. Allah revealed it to
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam to deliver mankind from darkness
to light and guide them to the path of the mighty and the
Praiseworthy, right? It is a book that offers guidance on true
beliefs, numerous etiquette, exemplary character and righteous
works. By observing its injunctions adhering to its
guidelines, and embodying his teachings, mankind is guaranteed
its Felicity in the present worldly life as well as in the
life to come.
He then says that the Quran is
a healing cure. A
lot of people have found cure in the Quran when they read the
Quran. A lot of people you're wondering like, how do you do
that? Well read the Quran with meaning we usually tell people at
least read one page with meaning reflect of at least one page a day
with meaning and you will see the benefits of this. Right? So
La ilaha illa. Allah, He says it's a wholesome cure, and a healing
balm for human psychological illnesses, character ailments and
social problems. Reason for that is a lot of the social
psychological ailments that people have. It's because they're
suffering a trauma, they're suffering setbacks, they're
suffering some kind of grief, they're suffering some kind of
sadness, there's worry that is beset them, there's concern that
has overtaken them. There's a loss that they have suffered, or
something like that. And what the Quran tells you, and it shows you
because it's a historical record, in a sense, as well, it shows that
this is part and parcel of the world. And then it tells us that
the hereafter doesn't have any of this. If you do what's right, and
you deal with the matters, and the Quran tells us how to deal with
it, it encourages, it tells us to be patient, it tells us to be
steadfast. And what it does in that regard is that it gives us
many, many, many anecdotes, many stories, many narratives about
people in the past who are who suffered much more than us who
suffered much more than what we you know what we suffer the little
prick, the little pricks and thorns that we suffer the little
setbacks and issues and criticisms that we have. And then that just
makes you much stronger. Because when humans hear others facing the
same thing, and then they see that they were given a great reward for
that then just makes life easier because our life is at least 50%
Psychology. It's about perspective. Right? It's really
about perspective, motivation and what we have and just to
understand about other people and the nature of this world, that's
what the Quran does, believe me, you start reading it, you will see
that same benefit. So, it is a book that offers guidance on true
beliefs, numerous etiquette exemplary character, a character
righteous works, and by observing its injunctions and adhering to
its guidelines and embodying its teachings, mankind is guaranteed
its Felicity in the present worldly life as well as the life
to
Come
Allah subhanaw taala this is what he says what verse of Surah unis
unis right which is verse 5758 Yeah you Hannah Sukhadia at home
or you go to milk Robbie calm where she only Matthew so do what
she will Lima is sudo Eva who then who are metal meaning all we found
the little. He was the Rama de Fabi the Lika Leah for who or how
you room Maya Jamar own oh people are teaching from your Lord has
come to you.
A teaching or advice has come to you from your Lord, a healing for
what is in your hearts and guidance and mercy for the
believers say in Allah's mercy and in Allah's virtue and mercy. Let
them rejoice, these are better than all they accumulate.
May Allah give us the reality of that. If a person holds faster the
Quran and makes it the intimate companion, how do you make it an
intimate companion? You basically keep reading it. An intimate
companion is somebody that you can refer back to somebody you can
consult somebody you can speak to often somebody who's always
present and ready for you. And that's the amazing thing of the
Quran. The Quran is still a living book and a real living miracle. A
lot of the time people have questions and doubts and issues
and, and sadness. And they read the Quran and the Quran, lays them
lays their concerns to rest Subhanallah right. So
anybody who recite the Quran as is supposed to be recited and tries
to understand
its chapters and verses and it's phrases and words.
That person will be enveloped in guidance and a spiritual state
will overcome him. Right. And you will make that person
a person of great intellect and sound opinion with piercing
insight and sensitive and pure soul.
And then you'll will be much more open to embrace any good witches
out there. You know like Knight right now sometimes. There's a
good out there but we don't feel like it because our hearts are
rusty. Our hearts are filled with other things. And we we will also
refrain from evil Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Surah Surah verse
nine in Hodel. Khurana Yeah, de relatie. Here, a Cohen, were your
best shareholder meaning Alladhina MeLuna Saudi Hardy another home
agilon cabbie, you're truly this Quran guides to the straight path
and gives the believers who do righteous deeds, glad tidings of a
great reward. Now, as I mentioned to you previously, that the jinn
were moved by this, and they declared it amazing, right, so
their hearts became so filled with love and the Majesty of Allah
subhanho wa Taala that they hastened to call their own people
to to follow it. So we have in a surgeon, the beginning of surgeon,
Allah says, oh, here a year in STEM rnfl room Meenal gene NIFA
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Quran and algebra, say that this is talking to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The main part of this is for call in
Samana, Quran algebra. They said that we have heard a wonderous
Quran which guides towards righteousness. So we believed in
it, and we shall never set up partners with our Lord. Right.
That's very interesting. Right? We shall never set up partners with
our Lord.
The Quran also then says
regarding these Jin they said Kalu Coleman, in nurse Amir kita been
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said our people we have heard a book that was revealed after Musa
so it looks like they knew about Musa Salam. They say I mean the
description of the jinn is that they have different religions. So
they have they know this history. They know about the prophets,
right? So they said that our people when they heard the Quran
and the prophets
Lawson reciting that morning they went back to their people and they
said that we have heard a book that was revealed after Moses
confirming the previous scriptures, that guides to the
truth and the straight path. Our people respond to the one who
calls to Allah and believes in Him. He will forgive you of your
sins and protect you from a painful torment. That's inserted.
Ackoff verse four, verse 30, to 31. Because of this nature of the
Quran, the Quran has surpassed all the previously revealed scriptures
and it's superior to them in status. So Allah subhanho wa Taala
says, In another verse, we're in no fee milky Terra Bella de la
Lehmann hadleigh Ali Yun Hakeem, we're in houfy Milky Derby, la de
la la une Hakeem and truly it is with us, in the mother of the
book, truly exalted and authoritative. This is Allah
subhanaw taala speaking about the Quran in terms of yet where it has
eternally been. And then he also says, in sort of man that was sort
of zakura verse for certain man either verse 48, Allah says, whoa,
is an illogical kita that will help the Mossad De Lima Bay in a
day he Meenal kita, b1 MOHAI, you mean an ID, we sent you the book
with the truth confirming the strip scriptures that came before
it, and with final authority over them, that shows the superiority
of the Quran right now, how can a book be superior to other books
when they've all been revealed by Allah subhanho wa taala? Isn't
this just one word of Allah with another word of Allah subhanho wa
taala. So the scholars have said that even though all the
scriptures are from Allah subhanaw taala the Quran is superior for
three reasons. Right? Firstly, the number of chapters in the Quran is
greater than the other scriptures. Right? There's a authentic
narration that states that just certain fatty had the skeletal
hand, and the ending of Surah Al Baqarah, meaning Armineh rasuluh
mountains, the lady Marathi will not be known and the beginning of
la meme, they will only reveal to our Prophet sallallahu and those
are very, very special verses that will only reveal to our profits
and losses are not not found in previous scriptures. It's reported
that I believe no Masuda the Allahu Anhu said that the seven
long chapters which are called the three will write are similar in
length to the Torah. So the Torah to Musa alayhis salam is only
equivalent to the first seven long chapters, right? Then after that
you have the mean? The mean or the hundreds, right? The hundreds,
which means those tours that are have about 100 verses, they're
similar to the Evangel which means the Injeel, the book of
essentially Saddam, right the referred to as the Bible now,
right? And the Muthoni verses are the Psalms, right? They're like
the psalms of Diodati salaam, and the rest of the Quran is surplus
to this. So the Quran actually includes more than the Torah.
There's the Boo, the Psalms, and the Injeel put together and it
also has more than that. That's very interesting. That's a hadith
narrated by Imam datamine then Imam Muhammad Al Imam Tiburon, you
have narrated that Prophet sallallahu sallam said that I have
been given the seven long chapters in place of the Torah, the
hundreds Surahs with 100 verses in place of the Psalms, the Muthoni,
in place of the Evangel. And I was favored with the more fossil that
Seema Mohammed's now the seven long chapters refer to the
chapters from Surah Al Baqarah. So early Imran Nyssa, etcetera to
Surah to Toba. And if we count total and file and Toba is one
that if we count sort of the Toba and circle unfurl as one single
chapter one one surah, right? Because there's a difference of
opinion as to whether that sort of October is a separate chapter or
not. Okay. The hundreds the been are those chapters that have
approximately 100 verses, and the Muthoni refer to those chapters
whose verses number less than 100. Right. So all of those are
considered to be the mean, right? Now, there's a difference of
opinion as to which chapter begins the section of the Quran referred
to as the Mufasa. Now that I've introduced this name to you,
you're going to wonder what the Mufasa is. Now, the opinions their
range from starting from Surah to soft fat, that that's where the
meat, that's where they will first a lot start from, some say sort of
fat, others, they sort of gerat that is the popular opinion, I
think, and then others say sort of sort of off right sort of cough,
right? However, they are in Union unanimous agreement that the
myofascial section ends with the ending of the Quran, but within
the Mufasa sections, you've got three sections you've got the
longer the longer more fossils, more fossil means the detailed,
right? Those sorts which have been detailed, right, the verses are
detail. So you've got the longer more fossils, which are the
longest ones, you've got the medium ones and then you've got
the KSR the smaller ones like cola or the gerbil flock and hola como
taka, Thor, and either Zulu, sila and so on and so forth. So it's
definitely until in the Quran where it starts from though
there's a difference of opinion you
Usually we you know, usually we hear their opinion they start some
sort of gerat Right?
Secondly, Allah subhanaw taala so the second reason why the Quran is
superior is that Allah subhanaw taala has made the Quran in
Arabic, Allah subhanaw taala speech is beyond any language,
letters, sounds, etc. However, when he revealed that to the
people to for them to understand he revealed in different languages
so the Quran is in clear Arabic, right? Every Prophet clarified the
message right to their people in the language of their people.
That's where Allah subhanaw taala informs us warmer Sun mir Rasool
in in, be Lisa Nicole me here Liuba you know to whom we have
never sent a messenger who did not use his own people's language to
make things clear for them that sort of Ibrahim verse for right
now. So if everything is sent in their own language, why Arabic
being superior, the Arabic language is considered especially
advantageous in clarifying things. Because Arabic is a very nuanced
language. It has very, very particular and very detailed and
sophisticated rhetoric, right, which allows it to be very, very
detailed. So that's why multiple narrators like Bay hockey and
Hakeem and taba Ronnie generate the Hadith that love the Arabs for
three things because I'm an Arab, the Prophet was I'm saying the
Quran is in Arabic, and the speech of the people of Paradise is in
Arabic is a Hadith narrated by bayhealth He had given Toblerone
right. And the third reason to make the Quran superior is
although the previous scriptures of Allah Most High were miraculous
insofar as they imparted knowledge of the Unseen and gave legal
rulings, right? Allah subhanaw taala has extended the miraculous
nature of the Quran, right to include its pronunciation and
linguistic style. So the Quran is not just miracle in its message in
the way It foretells things and the way it details things, but
also in the way you read it, in its rhetoric in his linguistic
style, it's totally, it's totally irrefutable in all of these ways,
right? The other scriptures do not enjoy the extra ordinary style of
the Quran, right? They just don't have that kind of style, right? It
is for these and other such reasons that the Quran is
superior. Right? And this is what's referred to when Allah
subhanaw taala says that we're in the houfy or milk Kitabi ladina
Allah ie Yun, Hakeem and truly it is with us, in the mother of the
book truly exalted and authoritative. Now this is also
indicated in another verse. Now you've heard this verse, it's
quantum higher or metal or rigidly pneus you are the best nation
brought forth for mankind. So Ali Imran verse 110, right?
Now, how is that relevant to this? Right? So Imam Ibn katheer, right,
he says that they mean, we only attain this accolade through the
blessings of the esteemed book, because we have this extreme book,
Allah Most High has honored the Quran over every other book that
he revealed, and he has given him authority over them, abrogating
them by it, right, and made it his final revelation, every previous
scripture was revealed all at once, whereas this Quran was
revealed incrementally according to the given situation, right. And
this was done out of great concern for for for it, right, as for the
one to whom it was revealed, so that was revealed slowly, slowly,
slowly, so it could be digested, better, Incorporated, better,
understood better, imagine if it all came at once. You know, it
takes you a while to understand that this way, subhanAllah bit by
bit, and very strategic portions would come down until the whole
Quran came down, it didn't come down, it did not come down the way
we have it today. In the in the most halves, the you know, the way
it's been put together, right? Every time a part of it was
revealed, it was as if a book from the previous books was revealed.
That's what Luca fear says, right? So there you go, I think that
gives us an understanding of the superiority of the Quran, the
great book that we have in May Allah subhanaw taala, especially
in Ramadan, right? May Allah make this a very special thing that we
do in Ramadan is that we need to be more closely associated May
Allah allow this to be a an inspiration for us to be closer to
this book throughout our life. And may Allah bless the author for
producing this book and for reminding us of these things. So
in sha Allah, we will see you again, in the next Inshallah, in
the next episode in sha Allah in the next class of this Jazak
Allahu Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
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